Many tend to assume the mind dims as the years pass, but when researchers tested how people reasoned through conflict, adults aged 60 to 90 reasoned more wisely than the young

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In April 2010, a team led by Igor Grossmann published a paper in PNAS with a title that runs against the usual story we tell about getting older: “Reasoning about social conflicts improves into old age.” The researchers gave a community sample of American adults stories about conflict, asked them to predict how each would [...] The post Many tend to assume the mind dims as the years pass, but when researchers tested how people reasoned through conflict, adults aged 60 to 90 reasoned more wisely than the young appeared first on Space Daily .